Bonding in Linux

About the different bonding options in Linux

Popular bonding options and drivers are:

• Linux bonding kernel driver To verify: cat /proc/net/bonding/<bond name>

• Teaming driver where only the essential stuff is in kernel, the rest is userspace (https://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/06/23/team-driver/ , https://github.com/jpirko/libteam/wiki/Infrastructure-Specification)

• OVS (either bonding PMDs in DPDK or kernel interfaces) http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/bonding/ To verify: ovs-appctl bond/show ; ovs-appctl lacp/show

• DPDK (there is a bonding PMD)

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Last update: September 13, 2020